1886.] BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 343 
Dr. Emmy L. GREGORY presents the first part of the distribution and func- 
tion of the fea of libriform tissue, in the Bulletin a the Torrey Club for November. 
Pror. O. NoRDSTEDT has critical notes ne Vaucheria litorea, 
— - Thuretii ea VY. Synandra, oat ar a aa in the ante Pen Nat- 
‘A WELL WRITTEN and readable notice of Lubbock’s ‘‘ Flowers, Fruits and Leaves,” 
seoratisin over a page, is given in No. 1115 of the Nation, under the title of ‘‘ Vegetal 
eesthetics.”’ 
A. R, graduate of Michig the botanical depart- 
ment of eas stat University, has been pecker assistant to Dr. Vasey in the Department 
of Agricultu 
SPIRANTHES sa Minegienveeeumaas as been a very rare orchid in Ireland for fifty years or 
more, le is now thought to be entirely exterminated. Asystematic search forit is talked 
of se a year 
eure Lenrsact, verweed of Irmischia and of the Deutsche botanische Monatsschrift, 
has om Sondershausen to Arnstadt, where he has accepted the position of 
tretr a ee ‘Be alschul 
Ron F. VON MUELLER will next June resign his position as director of the Botanical 
ebhen of Melbourne, Australia 
Miss LIL bee ecgrt $ paper on the preliminary analysis of the leaves of Juglan 
nigra, ao before the A. A. A. S., Buffalo meeting, has been issued as a reprint from a 
Amer. td phe October, 1 
BALD SMITH expresses some thoughts on recent investigations concerning 
bacterin in Wee water, in the Medical News of October 9, 9, which are especially aaa 
engaged in such researches. 
am A. WIGAND, tl ned professor of botany at the University of Marburg, 
is dak at the age of area years. 
Fou me BOTANISTS have recently died: L. D A. F. M. Marcilly, conservator of 
forests ; "dailioe fuer oldu Ed. Lamy de la Peistrey lichenologist ; and Jean 
Baptiste Pierre See aay eryptogam 
ON PAGE 260, October Gazette, is an omission which should be corrected. To the char- 
acters of F 1 should be added ‘‘ ducts peripheral.” 
ESCRIPTIVE NOTES on Papuan plants, by Baron F. v. Mueller, cover 120 octavo pages, 
and include many new species. The desc riptions are in Engl lish. 
Errata.—Page 263, for oar Langit itibes ea and Trichin pial Epeolus, Pelopeus, 
lan 
Stizus and dita us. In foot-note 5 for ‘ bears mblance”’ it rs no resemblance. 
Mr. Jon EDFIELD poner his notes i ee November oe the Torrey Club, 
upon Didnuke ert Corema, an account of explorations for 1886. 
THE SOCIEDADE gb ERIANA, Of Co’ es an annual bulletin, issued in 
mbra, publish 
parts, which has now ached its fourth abla It is = to the study of the flora of 
Portugal, and has uae brought to light quite a number of n — 
BARON VON MUELLER’S activity in making known the fa. 
ions i nin bis almost monthly publication of new species tes flowering ue in 
i tralasian Journal of Pha: and other journals. 
Hi Aad 
THE MYXOMYCETES are 
of Mycology by critical Coane on n the —* spore wera he Dr. 
trichia 
PROF. ‘e N. Pre alias us wulitvan in the Am. uae N 
how botany shall be ta aaht in agricultural colleg What he 
botany is 
uralist for phan upon 
suggests finds application not only in ageiaiaenelt canal but eunicces 
taught. 
TwOoN hi 1i eee 
Lowre & Co 0., “London. The first isa “Téxt book of aie botany,” edited from the 
ouse, and the other is “* The mieroscope, in theory 
- work of Strasburger by Prof. W. Hillh 
